Capstone Senior Design Project (In Progress)
For my capstone project I am working with a team of mechanical engineers to create a system that measures the angle between the center of gravity of a motorcycle rider and the Bike’s center plane as seen below:
Method #1: Skeleton Tracking Using Openpose Neural Network
To find the center of mass throughout a race the rider’s body position must be tracked. My first attempt at this was using a skeleton tracking program cloned off of Github. The example below is a graphic I developed using this program.
This method doesn’t require any extra clothing for the rider but it could only generate 0.2 frames per second and was only accurate about half the time.
Method #2: Tracking Aruco Markers using OpenCV
After finding these tags the program writes location data to a CSV file:
These values will be used to calculate the location of the riders center mass. In the next pictures you can see the pros and cons of each method considered in my proposal presentation. The pictures used were taken from my phone.
